Word: excepted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cell phone. He wore $400 alligator boots, dined on specially prepared food and splashed himself with expensive cologne. Payoffs to corrections officers permitted his bodyguards to arm themselves with shanks and bedposts. At one prison near Joliet, they even bragged about having keys to every door in the facility except the one to the outside...
...widely respected standard, even though that fact greatly eases your travel on the Web.) But some are more high profile. pics, the Platform for Internet Content Selection, is a proposed standard that would let parents filter out offending Websites. It's a kind of V chip, except with no government involvement; you subscribe to the rating service of your choice...
Although the sheer emotional force of the play makes criticism difficult, some gaping flaws are still evident. The greatest mistake in the entire show is the casting of Jean Valjean himself. Except in the stellar "Bring Him House", Stone cannot muster the vocal richness the part calls for. Most of the time his coarse, grainy singing voice makes one flinch. Considering the role is one of the most coveted of all time in musical theater, how such poor casting could have occurred is difficult to understand. Another disappointment is found in Sheperd, who plays Thenardier's female partner in crime...
...music, unlike that of "Tommy" or "Rent," relies more on synthesizers and orchestral instruments than it does on guitars and loud drums, so volume levels will be quite different. However, even in the most emotional scenes the orchestra is unable to balance itself, leaving listners feeling rather let down-except in the barricade scenes, when the ear-piercing decible of the French police left many audience members squirming in their seats...
...wanted to find out how a particular protein, a growth factor called myostatin, regulates the development of tissue. So they produced a strain of mice in which the gene that codes for myostatin had been deleted, or "knocked out." The resulting mutant animals grew up normal in every way--except for their extraordinarily well-developed musculature...